How to View and Navigate Pages in Publisher 2013
What is the important aspect of working with pages in Publisher? That is the ability to alter the interface View and Navigate between pages. Publisher 2013 contains multiple commands in the View Tab and elsewhere for Viewing and Navigation.
The Zooming functionality, allows users to change the View. That is available through the Zoom Slider, Show Whole Page icon as well as several commands in the Zoom Group.
Publisher includes a Pages pane. A very useful for Navigation. It’s allowing users to move to a page by clicking thumbnails in the pane. Keyboard shortcuts for Zooming and Navigation are included in Publisher 2013.
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In this video, we will explore the View tab in a bit more detail. Learn the other ways to navigate through your publication’s pages.
When you’re working with your publication, it is likely that you’ll want to view it in many different ways. As one particular view, doesn’t necessarily fit all of your needs.
First, we will work with the Zoom feature. By default, you’ll be able to see your entire publication on your screen. But there may come a time, you’ll want to view the elements of your publication a little bit closer. Especially, when you’re working with text,
As mentioned previously. You can zoom in and out on your publication using the Zoom slider. That is located in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.
You will zoom out and in on your publication respectively. Just move the vertical bar on the zoom slider to the left or right.
Rather than moving the vertical zoom bar within the slider, you can also click on the plus and minus signs to zoom your publication in or out in 10% increments.
If at any point you’d like to view your entire page within the publication window. Click the Show Whole Page icon to the right of the zoom slider to automatically take your zoom to 68%.
You can also zoom in and out within your document. Use the keyboard and a mouse with a scroll wheel. To zoom in on your publication, hold down the CTRL key on your keyboard while you move the scroll wheel on the mouse up.
To zoom out, hold CTRL on your keyboard while you move the scroll wheel on the mouse down. The in and out zooming with this method will move in 20% increments.
Additional zooming options can be found within the View tab on the ribbon. Click on the View tab and notice there is a Zoom group displayed.
If you’d like to quickly move to a 100% zoom, you can click on the 100% button to do so quickly. If you’d like to view the whole page on the screen at 68% zoom, click the Whole page button.
You can also choose a zoom percentage from the dropdown list displayed in the Zoom group. The Page Width button will allow you to automatically zoom in on the publication far enough so that the width of the publication takes up the entire screen.
For a letter sized document, in a portrait orientation, that puts you at about a 122% zoom.
For our publication, we’re going to stick to a whole page view for now. However, one thing that I’d like us to change is viewing our middle two pages of our publication as a two-page spread.
Right now, each page within the publication is displayed in a single page format within the workspace and the Page pane.
Within the View tab, click the Two-Page Spread button within the Layout group. Within the Pages pane, you’ll notice that the middle two pages of the publication are now displayed as more of a two-page spread.
This is exactly what we want for our example. You can also view a two-page spread. Click on the shortcut button to the left of the zoom slider. Right-click on a page within the Page pane. Select the View Two Page Spread option from the dropdown list.
Let’s talk about navigating through a publication with multiple pages. As we discussed previously, the Pages pane can be used to jump from one page to another.
In this example, if we wanted to look at the page cover of our publication, we’d simply select the 4th page within the Pages pane.
Navigating through the pages is as easy as clicking on the page within the pane. However, you may remember from a previous video that it is possible to hide the Pages pane. So that, you don’t have to see on the screen taking up space.
It’s important to know that if you don’t like working within Publisher with the Pages pane always displayed, you do not need to open and close this pane every time you want to switch to another page.
If you’d like to navigate to another page within the Publication without opening and close the pages pane repeatedly, you can use a keyboard shortcut.
On your keyboard press the CTRL and G (as in Go) key in order to open the Go To Page dialog box. Within this page, simply type the number of the page that you’d like to navigate to. Click the Enter key on your keyboard or click the OK button with your mouse.
The advantage of using this method of navigating to another page is that you can keep the Pages pane hidden and navigate to another page without ever requiring your hands to leave the keyboard.
Now, that we have a better understanding of how to view and navigate through our document, let’s take a look at how we can work with rulers, measurements, and guidelines within our publication.
Simon Calder
Chris “Simon” Calder was working as a Project Manager in IT for one of Los Angeles’ most prestigious cultural institutions, LACMA.He taught himself to use Microsoft Project from a giant textbook and hated every moment of it. Online learning was in its infancy then, but he spotted an opportunity and made an online MS Project course - the rest, as they say, is history!
